A variant reference data set for the Africanized honeybee, Apis mellifera.

doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.97

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A variant reference data set for the Africanized honeybee, Apis mellifera.

Scientific data - 8 Nov 2016

Kadri Samir M, Harpur Brock A, Orsi Ricardo O, Zayed Amro

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The Africanized honeybee (AHB) is a population of Apis mellifera found in the Americas. AHBs originated in 1956 in Rio Clara, Brazil where imported African A. m. scutellata escaped and hybridized with local populations of European A. mellifera. Africanized populations can now be found from Northern Argentina to the Southern United States. AHBs-often referred to as 'Killer Bees'- are a major concern to the...

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Animals
Bees
Biological Evolution
Brazil
Genome, Insect
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Population Dynamics

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PMID: 27824336
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.97
PMCID: PMC5100683

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